Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They made minerals fluoresce, killed bacteria and insects, burned a rabbit's ears (TIME...
There is also in the collection a few impromptu poems and drawings which Vachel Lindsay gave to Miss Lowell. One poem, especially, entitled "Sunrise on Easter Day," is illustrated with pen and ink sketches of a rabbit. In the drawings the letters AMY LOWELL are found as in a puzzle...
...words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid...
...room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
Jewesses no less than Jews were barred from their classes by the bullying Christians. Many a Jewess wept openly, lamented loudly. Several Jews, goaded, but outnumbered, sought to dash rabbit-like in at an unguarded classroom door. Chased, they were collared, hoisted by trouser-seats, ejected from the University buildings. Two professors who sought to rescue them were pummeled, severely bruised...